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Key's Deals With ACT And The Maori Party

Monday, 17 November 2008, 11:05 am | Gordon Campbell

Despite sitting outside Cabinet, Rodney Hide, Roger Douglas and their ACT Party mates are positioning themselves to be the bean counters in the new government, by controlling the reviews of government spending and regulation. More >>

Gordon Campbell On The New Breed Of Conservatives

Friday, 14 November 2008, 11:18 am | Gordon Campbell

The premise of Labour’s election campaign was that John Key was either (a) a vacuum waiting to be filled by political expedience or (b) a secret hardliner masking his real intentions until he could gain power. More >>

Gordon Campbell on the new Labour leadership

Wednesday, 12 November 2008, 9:42 am | Gordon Campbell

Not unexpectedly, Phil Goff’s first press conference as Labour leader did include a mea culpa of sorts for the “disconnect’ that had occurred in Labour’s relations with the New Zealand public - although the who, how and why of this inexplicable ... More >>

Crisis – How About A Minister Outside Cabinet!

Tuesday, 11 November 2008, 10:30 am | Gordon Campbell

That John Key certainly is a joker. In the face of the biggest global economic crisis in 80 years, the new government has come up with a governing structure whereby….either and probably both Rodney Hide and Peter Dunne will have ministerial responsibility ... More >>

Gordon Campbell's Election Wrap Up + Predictions

Monday, 10 November 2008, 10:12 am | Gordon Campbell

From now on, this 2008 election can serve as the poster child of MMP. In future, anyone who wants to seriously diss MMP – or hold a referendum to get rid of it – will have to grapple with Saturday’s compelling evidence for the defence. Namely, ... More >>

Campbell: NZ's Non-Election Comes To A Close

Friday, 7 November 2008, 12:37 pm | Gordon Campbell

With one day to go, this election campaign continues to be a foregone conclusion that stubbornly refuses to turn into a real contest. The narrative that the media would have preferred – tightening race, mounting drama, nail biting excitement ... More >>

Post US Elction: Gay Marriage Rent Asunder

Thursday, 6 November 2008, 10:36 am | Gordon Campbell

Hope you enjoyed Scoop’s blogging on the US elections yesterday. Sure was fun to do. In the aftermath of the victory of Barack Obama, the passing in California of Proposition 8 that bans gay marriage ( and puts current gay civil unions in limbo) ... More >>

US Election '08 - A Historical Turning Point?

Wednesday, 5 November 2008, 3:21 pm | Gordon Campbell

... what follows is Gordon's live blog stream as at 3.18pm NZT. It appears that Obama has well and truly won the US election though no formal calls have yet been made by the US TV Networks. - Scoop Editor Alastair Thompson More >>

Gordon Campbell: How To Watch A US Election

Tuesday, 4 November 2008, 3:30 pm | Gordon Campbell

The target to win the Presidency is 270 votes in the US Electoral College, and even the most zealous US patriot would probably concede that this system is an imperfect one. Essentially, it is not really a national election. Fifty-one separate elections ... More >>

Election 08: Gordon Campbell on Prisons

Monday, 3 November 2008, 2:36 pm | Gordon Campbell

Voting commonly plays out as an act of retribution, with the motivation to vote being either a desire to wreak vengeance on the incumbent, or to send a warning shot across the bow of their likely replacement. So, its hardly surprising that the law and order ... More >>

Election 08: Stealing The US Election

Friday, 31 October 2008, 2:52 pm | Gordon Campbell

Judging by the polls, the Republicans’ best chance of victory looks like it will require them to screw around with the machinery of voting. They’re very good at it. Given the near certainty of record turnouts in next week’s election, will there ... More >>

Keeping The Good Life Going For The Middle Class

Wednesday, 29 October 2008, 11:32 am | Gordon Campbell

On Friday, the National Party will unveil the details of its plan to pay the mortgage and living expenses of those middle-income earners who may lose their jobs next year because of the economic recession Reportedly, the money to do it will come from the ... More >>

Gordon Campbell: Can McCain Make A Comeback

Monday, 27 October 2008, 4:10 pm | Gordon Campbell

Only a week to go, and have John McCain’s attempts at a comeback peaked too soon? Eight days ago, the US opinion polls began to carry a few flickering signs of a McCain resurgence - after Barack Obama had pulled clearly ahead in the wake of the second ... More >>

National’s dilemma: If not Labour Lite, then what?

Friday, 24 October 2008, 11:05 am | Gordon Campbell

The irony about National retaining such a handy lead in the polls is that while the public seems to have decided it is time for a change, it is still not giving National a mandate for change. Public support for National remains conditional on National ... More >>

Campbell on Lockwood and other embarrassments

Thursday, 23 October 2008, 9:30 am | Gordon Campbell

In the last couple of days, Lockwood Smith and Maurice Williamson have provided a timely reminder that no matter how much the public may like John Key, there is some truly awful deadwood on the National front bench. Having the shadow Immigration Minister ... More >>

Election 08: Campbell On The Politics Of Poverty

Wednesday, 22 October 2008, 1:28 pm | Gordon Campbell

We knew this already, but its nice of the OECD and its Growing Unequal report to provide the concrete evidence. Yes, the social and economic rewards of the free market reforms of the 1980s were captured by the relative few, with disastrous social consequences ... More >>